{"id":2343,"date":"2009-02-26T13:40:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/02\/26\/numbers002\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T13:40:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:40:45","slug":"numbers002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/02\/26\/numbers002\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers, Volume 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I explained last week<\/a>, I come across a lot of numbers during the week. While we “don’t do numbers,” here at RedMonk, I thought I’d start collecting together some of the more interesting & helpful ones I see. Here’s volume 2 of the numbers notebook clean-out:<\/p>\n

Maybe it wasn’t such a weird idea<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n eBay CEO John Donahoe: Skype a $500M<\/strong> business @ high teens margins, 30-40%<\/strong> growth last year. Wow. (Mike Olson at the Accel Symposium<\/a>.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The UNIX Wars!<\/a>, Armistice Edition<\/h2>\n

\n It’s a little discussed secret that Solaris enjoys the largest installed base of any commercial UNIX or Linux distribution. It is also true that the Solaris OS is supported on more than 1000 platforms<\/strong>, with more than 150 HP\/Compaq systems<\/strong> on Sun’s Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). Plus there are currently more than 7,800 x86 applications<\/strong> shipping for Solaris.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, this from James Governor<\/a> is all the analysis you need:<\/p>\n

\n Recession driving pragmatism, and maintenance\/support contract focus rather than new sales. see RedHat-Microsoft and Sun-HP deals this week. [And then<\/a>:] Of course – this deal is likely to be about EDS as much as anything else. it has a crapload of Solaris under management.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pink-dots to Green-dots<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n In the fourth quarter, Sun disclosed that billings from a collection of programs that includes Solaris and virtualization software were just $42 million<\/strong> in the second quarter ended in December, off 29%<\/strong> from the year-earlier period.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a Lot of Pink Dots<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n The JavaFX Runtime has been downloaded over 100 Million<\/strong> times since launch on 12\/4. [Also:] the Java business for Sun, last quarter, delivered more than $67m in billings<\/strong>, up nearly 50%<\/strong> year over year. [Also:<\/a>] Despite the current economic climate, nearly 10 million Blu-ray disc players<\/strong> were sold in the US in 2008 (a third in the last quarter), and consumers bought 2.5 times as many Blu-ray discs<\/strong> as the year before.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OpenSSO at Verizon<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n What has over 40,000,000<\/b> users, 1,000,000<\/b> logins per day, and peaks at 4,000<\/b> logins per minute? Verizon’s OpenSSO deployment, that’s what!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Atlassian<\/h2>\n

\n Atlassian hit $100 mm all time sales<\/strong> this week. 7 years<\/strong> and a great ride. The story is not about collaboration or wikis or developer tools per se. It’s about lightweight enterprise software that enterprises can put in the hands of 100s or 100s of people more easily, more affordably than trad s\/w. Without a traditional sales force and private equity. Obviously biased I am, but it’s about a different type of software company. (Via Jeffrey Walker on The Enterprise Irregulars list)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more perspective, they report<\/a> 2008 revenue at about $35M<\/strong>. See also Susan’s post on the topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lombardi Mo’: it’s getting SaaSy<\/a><\/h2>\n

\n Driven by significant customer acquisition and expansion, the company achieved 47 percent software sales growth<\/strong> as compared to the same period in 2007…. SaaS Adoption: Surpassed 4,500 companies using Lombardi Blueprint<\/strong>, an \u2018on-demand\u2019 process-documentation tool that is used to collaboratively map an organization\u2019s business processes, identify problems, and prioritize improvement opportunities, making it the most widely used Software as a Service (SaaS) BPM product.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See the travels of Barton George<\/a> for more on Blueprint<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Adobe Open Source Downloads<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

While on a 2\/24\/2009 briefing with Adobe, they gave RedMonk the following download numbers:<\/p>\n